Ticket-receiving box.



No. 858,378, PATENTED JULY 2, 1907.

I. FLUEGBLMAN.

TICKET RECEIVING B0XE APPLIOATION FILED Nov.17, 1906.

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PATENTED JULY 2, 190'1.

I. PIIUBGIILIIAN.

TICKET RECEIVING B0X.

APELIOATION FILED NOV. 17, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Ormes.

ISIDOR FLUEGEIJMAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA,

TICKET-RECEIVING BOX.

NC).l 858,378.

Application iiled November To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Isrnon FLUEGELMAN, a citizen of theUnited States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new vand useful Improvement in Ticket- Receiving Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the so-called checkogram system for theaters, basebally games and the like. In this system Checks or tablets of vulcanized rubber, metal or other suitablel material, which serve the function of tickets, are sold'by means of an automatic ticket-eject ing `machine to purchasers who wish to obtain admission to the place of entertainment. These tickets are thereupon given to the tickettaker by the purchaser at the door of the theater and the ticket-taker puts these tickets or checks into a box intended for their reception. Now I supply the ticket or check receiving box with a circuit changing device operated by the insertion of a check vinto the box and I place the circuit chan'ger in circit with an electromagnetic counter situ-` tickets whichhave been received at the door up to that time. Inthis way he will be able to tell whether the ticket-taker is putting .into thereceiving box, instead of into his pocket for illegitimate use, all the tickets sold and he will also know'when the ticket seller is to be instructed to sell no more tickets in case of an unusual crowd. I also supply the circuit changing device with a mechanical register or counter which shows how many tickets have been received, thus acting as a check upon the electromagnetic counter` It happens th'at in devices of this sort, the tickets vare sometimes dropped into the receiving box very rapidly, one after the other.

The object o my invention is to devise a mechanism which shall permit this rapidity oi insertion of the -checks and which shall, at the same time, insure 'moving both the electrical and mechanical counters, 4 0

one step and one step only for each check which has passed. To attain these ends I mount on the ticket receiving box a tunnel or similar guide through which the checks pass and I naturally prefer to make the tunnel of the ciosssectional size and shape of the tickets. Into this tunnel projects a tooth ot' a spacing' wheel, the distance between the teeth of whichis equal to or somewhat greater than the length of a ticket so that each ticket, in its passage through the tunnel, moves the spacing wheel one step and one step only. The spacing wheel is however normally .locked from forward motion by a stop pawl, which pawl is moved to free the wheel by a part projecting into the tunnel which part is in turn actuated by the ticket in its passage on its way to the projecting tooth. To the spacing Lwheel is' connected an electrical commutator having a number of segments corresponding to the number of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 2, 1907.

17,1906. Seria1N0343,839.

teeth on the spacing wheel, so that the circuit` to the electromagnetic counter may be made each time the wheel isi-moved one step. I also connect to the spacing wheel, by a train of reducing gears, a mechanical counter and I preferably make one Wheel of the train axially. movable so that the counter may be disconnected from the spacing Wheel and be reset when necessary. In this way my counting device has a possible speed of opv eration far in excess of any demands upon it and, no matter what the speed, the electrical and mechanical counters inevitably register` the passage of each tooth of the spacing wheel through the tunnel which means they register the number of checks passed.

In the drawings,'-Figure 1, is a side elevation with a part of the tunnel broken away; Fig;2 is a section on theline 2-2 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a detail of the pawls in their normal position.

fasten a casting B having a pair of wings B to which is secured, by suitable screws, the guide for the checks which I have shown as aI longitudinally split tunnelC a slot C2, as shown in Fig. l., frame B is also cast a support B2 to which is Secured a standard B3 by means of the screws B4. Again the casting B has an arm B5 to which is secured a common type of mechanical counter, such as the Veeder counter, which may be bought in the open market. Finally the frame B has-a boss BG carrying a pivot b, in line with a. coperating-pivot b on the standard B. i Between the pivots b and b, I journal a spacing wheel a circular metallic segment or ring F, and wings F2, the electric circuit being completed, by means of the brushes F3 and F4, to any common type or electromag-v netic counter`G. Since I employ as many wings F2 as the spacing wheel has teeth, it is seen that the circuit electromagnetic recorder G will be operated each time the spacing-wheel moves one step, that is a distance equal to the space between two adjacent teeth. To the spacing wheel E, I also secure a pinion H, meshing with a gear H which takes into a gearH2 mounted on the shaft of the mechanicaly counter D. The gears H, Hf, H2, are so proportionedhowever -that each time the spacing wheelmovesone step, the shaft ol themechanical counter is turned a distance toregister one unit. It.will thus be seen that the rotation of the spacing wheel does two things, it registers the number of its teeth which have passed a given point both on the mechanical counter D and on the electromagnetic counter G. l

To enablethe mechanical counter D to be reset, I -mount the gear wheel H on a sleeve h which slides axially back and forth upon a pin h', the gear H being pressed'outwardly, into a position in which it meshes Upon the back of the usual ticket receiving box A, I l

which, as seen, is made in two'parts, juxtaposed to form In one place with the E to which is rigidly secured the commutator F, having will be completed through the brushes F3, F4, and the with the gear H, by the spring hl. Then it is desired to reset the mechanical counter D, the gear Hf is pressed backward against the tension of the spring h2 by means ol a suitable key until it is out of mesh with the pinion H, whereupon the gears H/ and H2 may be freely rotated in a directio'n to bring the digits oi the mechanical. counter all back to zero. 'I

I have now'to describe the mechanism by which the passage of each check through the tunnel moves the spacing wheel one step and one step only. To this end, as I have before explained, I make the length of the check about equal to the distance between the teeth of the spacing-wheel so that two adjacent teeth embrace the corners at theends ot the check. The checks, as .they tall through the tunnel, then. serve as actuating devices tor the wheel. When a number of checks are put into the tunnel so rapidly that they lie one upon the other, they act very much as would a sprocket chain passing over the teeth of the wheel. lt will be noticed, in this connection, that 'the corners of the tickets are cut oft, being rounded in the case shown, and that a spacing wheel tooth takes in between two adjacent tickets.

In order that the passage of a single ticket through the tunnel may not, by its momentum, cause the spacing wheel. to move more than a single step, l employ a stop pawl K tensioned by a spring K. Se long as there is no check in the proper position oi the tunnel, the stop pawl K projects in the path of the spacing Wheel, as shown in Fig. 3, and prevents any motion of the latter. In order to throw the stop pawl out ot engagement with the wheel tooth at the .proper time, I employ a pawl-actuating device L which -I have shown inthe shape of a hanging pivoted arm, having apart L projecting into the tunnel in the path of the checks, and having a proj ection L2 contacting with and operating the stop pawl. The pawl N, it will be observed, prevents, at all times, any motion oi the spacing wheel in a backward direction. l may remark, in passing, that the pawlactuating device L andthe pawls l and N are each mounted upon part B2 of the casting B. vIt will new be seen that as a check passes down through the tunnel C, it

contacts with the part L of thepawl-actuatingy device which projects into the tunnel through the slot C2, thus throwing the pand-actuating device to the right in Fig. 'l and raising the pawl K out of engagement with the spacing wheel tooth. if but a single ticket ispassing, the pand-actuating device is forthwith pushed back into the tunnel by means of the spring K acting on the pawl l( and pushing against the projection L2. In this manner the stop pavrl K comes into the path of the'nex't tooth and. stops the wheel ater'i t has moved one step. Should, however, a number of checks lie one on top of l the other in the tunnel, the paWl-actuating devicevwill ses,

passed through the tunnel and their number ,will have been registered both upon the mechunicalhnd electrical counters and this no matter how rapidly the checks are inserted.

y1. A ticket receiving bo.\`: com ing a tunncl for the cmu toothed'spaycing,wheel' jectinf;r into rthe tunnel, a stop lilr'l'tlie wheel. a pam-actuating device in the path of the checks. and registering mechanism controlled by the spacing wheel substantially as described.

2. A ticket receiving box comprisingr a tunnel for checks4 a toothed spacing wheel having teeth projecting into the tunnel. a stop, pawl for the teeth, and a hanging arm huving a part projecting into the path of the checks und a projection eoperuting with the stop pau'l to disengage it 'from the teeth on the passage of the checks, substantiallyv as described.

3. Aiticket. receiving box comprisingr n frame having u longitudinally split tunnel mounted thereon with a slot therein, a toothed spacing wheel projecting through the slot, a stop pawl for the Wheel, and a paivhactuatlng device also projecting-through the slot into the path of the checks, substantially as described.

4. A ticket receiving box comprising a tunnel for the checks, a toothed spacing wheel projectinginto the tunnel, :i commutator rotating with the wheel, and :in electromagnetic register' in circuit with the commutator, substantially as described. l

5. A ticket receiving box comprising a tunnel for the checks, a toothed spacing'wheel projecting into the tunnel, a commutator rotating with the wheel having a metallic ring and wings, brushes 'coperating with the ring and wings respectively, and an electromagnetic register in circuit with the brushes, substantially as described.

G. A check receiving box comprising a tunnel for the checks, through which checks with corners are passed, :i spacing wheel having teeth projecting into the tunnel arranged to embrace the corners of the checks, and a registering mechanism controlled by the spacing wheel, substantially as described.

7. A check receiving box comprising a tunnel for the' checks, through which checks with corners are passed, a spacing wheel having a tooth projecting into the tunnel and moved a single space by contact with the corner of the check in its passage through the tunnel, and a registering mechanism controlled by the spacing; wheel, substantially as described.

8. A ticket receiving box comprising a tunnel for the checks, atoothed spacing Wheel projecting' into the tunnel. a mechanical counter and toothed. gearing connecting the spacing wheel and counter, one member of which is mount` ed to slide axially, whereby the counter may be disengaged from the spacing Wheel for resetting, substantially :is described.

9. A ticket receiving box comprising a tunnel for the checks, a toothed spacing wheel projecting into the tunnel, a stop pawl for the Wheel, a pawlhctuating" device in the path of the checks,`a commutator rotating with the wheel und an'electromagnetic recorder in circuit with the commutator, substantially as described.

10. A.- tlcket receiving box comprising a tunnel for the checks, a toothed spacing wheel projectingr into the tunnel,

Ia stop pawl for the Wheel, a pand-actuating device iu the path of the checks, a mechanical counter', and .mechanism connecting'the counter' and whceL.4 substantially ns described.

in testimony whereof Iy have signed my name to this.

specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

Witnesses Rosi; E. GinvIN, MAY CAULrinLn. 

